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Josh Aickman
Josh Aickman
Franchise: Wishmaster film series
Notability: Minor character
Type: Scientist
Gender: Male
Location: California
Status: Alive
Born: 1972 [1]
Died: 1997 [2]
First: Wishmaster (1997)
Actor: Tony Crane

Josh Aickman is a fictional geologist and a minor character featured in the Wishmaster film series. Played by actor Tony Crane, he appeared in the first installment of the series, Wishmaster in 1997.

Biography[]

Josh Aickman was a young geologist who worked for a University science department in California. His closest friend was a woman named Alexandra Amberson. Josh long harbored feelings for Alex beyond friendship, but Alex would not reciprocate. Even after she had broken up with a previous boyfriend, she preferred to keep things on an uncomplicated level. One day after playing Tennis, Josh made the bold movie of asking Alex out on a date - dinner and a movie. Not wishing to make things uncomfortable between them, Alex said that she would prefer "hot dogs and a ball game".

Later that day, Alex came to Josh's lab with a favor to ask. As an appraiser at Regal Auctioneers, she had recently come into possession of red fire opal that possessed properties that she could not adequately identify. Josh promised that he would look at it for her.

He ran the gem through a spectral-analysis machine and began picking up the mysterious properties that Alex spoke of. Neither of them could have predicted that this particular gem, the Stone of the Secret Fire, actually contained the trapped essence of an evil Djinn. As the laser scans from the devices interacted with the power of the Djinn, the stone shattered, causing the machine to explode, killing Josh.

At the moment of his death, Alex received a psychic flash of something horrible happening at the lab. She tried calling him, but when he didn't pick up, she ran over there herself. When she arrived, police and medical personnel were cordoning off the area and zipping Josh's corpse up in a body bag.

The Djinn was set free and was now bound to Alexandra Amberson. As she was the one who had originally awakened him, she was now owed three wishes. Following a string of horrific events, resulting in Alex wasting two of her wishes, she finally made her third wish, which was to undo the events that resulted in the discovery of the gem to begin with. As such, the past was altered and Josh never died.

Notes & Trivia[]

  • It is implied that in the restructured timeline, Josh and Alex eventually got together.

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References[]

  1. Date approximated based upon the age of actor Tony Crane.
  2. Original timeline only.


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